The website seems to implicitly say that white men equals bad and any attempt made by white men to improve the situation must be half-hearted and just a PR stunt. Thus all the sarcasm. This view is not unique to this website (if they are even trying to make this claim in some form) but runs through a lot of these initiatives.
Lately, I have even witnessed people complaining that most donations come from white men charities and that this is bad (with some people even suggesting they should refuse those donations to make a point), which seems completely nonsense.
How far does it have to go for these attempts to raise awareness of a problem to turn into racism themselves?
I find MongoDB easier to deploy and maintain because it's easier to build and monitor. CouchDB with Erlang not so much (for our environment, it's totally alien).
EDIT: I made a statement about our preference, for our environment. I did not make broad claims about these DBs for other people. How am I upsetting HN?
Maybe a refinement of this approach is to FIRST explain in simple terms to establish basic understanding and SECOND going deeper with technical jargon.
They usually say something about the cost yeah. What is weird is that they also seem to be using cheques for local transactions (or so they tell me, I find it hard to believe).